The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students
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Article Title | The reading ability of good and poor temporal processors among a group of college students |
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ERA Journal ID | 6549 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Au, Agnes (Author) and Lovegrove, Bill (Author) |
Journal Title | Attention, Perception and Psychophysics |
Journal Citation | 70 (4), pp. 697-706 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2008 |
Place of Publication | Austin, TX, United States |
ISSN | 0031-5117 |
1943-3921 | |
1943-393X | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.4.697 |
Web Address (URL) | http://app.psychonomic-journals.org/content/70/4/697.full.pdf+html |
Abstract | In this study, we examined whether good auditory and good visual temporal processors were better than their poor counterparts on certain reading measures. Various visual and auditory temporal tasks were administered to 105 undergraduates. They read some phonologically regular pseudowords and irregular words that were presented sequentially in the same ('word' condition) and in different ('line' condition) locations. Results indicated that auditory temporal acuity was more relevant to reading, whereas visual temporal acuity was more relevant to spelling. Good auditory temporal processors did not have the advantage in processing pseudowords, even though pseudoword reading correlated significantly with auditory temporal processing. These results suggested that some higher cognitive or phonological processes mediated the relationship between auditory temporal processing and pseudoword reading. Good visual temporal processors did not have the advantage in processing irregular words. They also did not process the line condition more accurately than the word condition. The discrepancy might be attributed to the use of normal adults and the unnatural reading situation that did not fully capture the function of the visual temporal processes. The distributions of auditory and visual temporal processing abilities were co-occurring to some degree, but they maintained considerable independence. There was also a lack of a relationship between the type and severity of reading deficits and the type and number of temporal deficits. |
Keywords | reading ability; temporal processors; college students; auditory perception; visual perception |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520203. Cognitive neuroscience |
520499. Cognitive and computational psychology not elsewhere classified | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | James Cook University |
Vice-Chancellor's Office |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9zxq9/the-reading-ability-of-good-and-poor-temporal-processors-among-a-group-of-college-students
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